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School Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 2015 | Preschool to Grades 4
K-Gr 3—In quiet, lyrical text, Johnston personifies a giant sequoia tree and brings it to life. Readers follow the tree through the seasons: "Summers, from his post above lower trees, he sniffs the breeze. Sometimes he feels the very heat, shimmering everywhere…Autumns, among shifting drifts of leaves, he feels a chill entering his bones." Minor's luminous goauche paintings successfully ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2014
Lyrical verse and lush gouache watercolors give a giant sequoia's imagined perspective on the forest life around "him" as season...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
